Online Worlds And Second Life

Online Worlds And Second Life Towards The Metaverse
University of Milan, Crema Campus
Berkman Island, Harvard Law School, Second Life
16 january 2007
David Orban
www.davidorban.com

What are we going to talk about?
Definitions
Creativity and programmability
Economy and legal foundations
Community and entertainment
Education and learning
Corporate presents
Criticism of Second Life
Other virtual worlds
Discussion
lindenlab.com

Definition of virtual world
An environment simulated on a computer, often with a three-dimensional interface, inhabited by the users that can interact with it
Second Life is a virtual world, connected with the real economy, where their creations of over 2 million residents become their own property
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_world, secondlife.com/whatis

Premise of the Metaverse
Neal Stephenson, “Snow Crash”, 1992
Introduces the 'Metaverse', 'avatar' and other concepts of common online use today
www.librarything.com/work/1000167

Stimulus from Creative Commons
Lawrence Lessig
Creative Commons
Innovation in copyright
Diverse media
Code
lessig.org

Creativity and programmability From the desert to the world of interaction
A rich scripting language
Free experimentation
Solids modeling
Calculation of the interactions

Legal and economic foundations
Terms of service (TOS)
Property rights
Land lease
Integrated economy
Encouraging experimentation

Growth of Second Life secondlife.com/whatis/economy-graphs.php

Economic exchange volumes

Paying users (those who can lease land)

Community and entertainment
Search and ranking
Paid placement
Where the Italians meet: i Parioli, Second Life.
Virtual Italian Parks

Design effects
Object programming
Development of spaces and buildings
Gestures and facial expressions
Development of specific design skills

Education and learning
Specific dedicated areas
Free land for experimental courses
Psychology
Cognitive science
Information science
cogs.indiana.edu

Corporate presence
IBM
Reuters
smh.com.au tweakers.net
Sun Microsystems
Sears

Consulting and development of spaces
Programming
'I Parioli'
Università Parioli
e2blab.it/startup/vip.asp

Guided tours: Synthravels
Travel agency
Multiple virtual worlds
Rating system
synthravels.com

Political
Governor speech
Lobby groups
Civil rights

Other online worlds
Open Croquet
Multiverse.net
Metaverse Roadmap
Areae
When will there be a real interoperability?

Immersion with 3D interaction
New navigational techniques
Innovative peripherals
Fragmentation and reunification of the interaction paradigms
www.3dconnexion.com earth.google.com

Unmatchable visibility
Media coverage
Real risk of overexposure
Focusing on marketing opportunities only
Expectations bubble
businessweek.com

False legal analogies
The legal basis of the contract are unbalanced
Not a negotiated constitution
No guarantees
Property
Currency exchange
Avatar identity
blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberseizure/feed/

The challenges of SL According to Hamlet Au, Second Life journalist
Improvements to the interface
Bitter involvement of the residents
Transformation in proper citizenship with precise rights.
nwn.blogs.com

New spirituality?
Online churches
Adaptation of the dogma
Evolution of the practices
Church of Doug

What are the new directions? “The girl with an error message in her eyes”
What doesn't happen in the real world?
interactions
Human2human
Bot2human
Bot2bot
warrenellis.com

The future fractal dimension
Interoperability
Interaction
Contrast of creation/destruction
Guarantee of a frontier and exploration

Possible application
“An Inconvenient Truth” Al Gore
Ecological modeling
Interactive discussion of environmental policies
Inworld learning
theclimateproject.org, climatecrisis.net

Contatti
David Orban
'Davidorban Agnon'
[email_address]
www.davidorban.com/blog
www.davidorban.com/wiki
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Sources, credits, and thanks
Giovanni Degli Antoni
Neal Stephenson
Larry Lessig
Mitch Kapor
Università degli Studi di Milano
Harvard Law School
Synthravels
Linden Labs
Logitech
New World Notes
Wikipedia
Google
Church Of Doug
Images: 'placbo', 'stevewall', 'crazykinux' Warren Ellis

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